"In the early 20th century, Zaida Ben-Yusef was one of the most active photographers in New York City, and gained a distinguished reputation for her original, evocative portraits of everyone from Theodore Roosevelt and Thomas Nast to Edith Wharton and William Merritt Chase, as well as her own expressive self-portraits. This book presents 46 of her finest photographs in full-page reproductions, along with biographical profiles of her subjects and details of the era that they all inhabited."--Amazon.